"Zing" is also an onomatopoeia, usually standing for the noise something small (such as a bee or a tennis ball) makes as it whizzes - zings (verb) - past your ear at extremely high speed. Bees, of course, make a high-pitched noise most of the time in any case, so zing - not being far from buzz - is a pretty good term. Alternatively and most appropriately it is used for the noise a projectile (bullet) makes when ricocheting off something metallic. "PYEEEOW!", maybe, in real life, but in a comic book, you're more likely to read "Zing!"

Most recently, "zing" has passed into internetslang to become both a noun and a different kind of verb. In an instant messaging, IRC or web forum conversation (and occasionally in real life), a zing is a victory, a funny joke, a moment when one party does something awesome (such as achieving some amazing high score on the Flashflavour-of-the-month), or makes another party look bad (such as turning somebody's ill-thought-out words against them for comic effect). In the latter sense, the second party is said to have been zinged or zing'd (verb), which means roughly the same as "owned", itself carrying approximately the same meaning as "dominated". It is typical to exclaim "Zing!" immediately after a zing (noun) has been successfully executed: